The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-01-06

3D. 1he Lake Shore swltchmen at Chicago,
out on strike, became very demonstrativo: a
train OF cars thrown off the track.
JULY.
81. Union employees of fourteen Now York
cigar factories locked out.
8. The men who distributed boycott circu-
lars referring to the Widow Landgrafrs
bakery were convicted at New York, before
prisonnent of from ten to thirty days.
2o. Tho National Cigarmakers union with
drew from the Knights of Labor.
~ The, cigarmakers of New York, who
hal been Oh strike for some time determined
to resume work.
20 Tho eight Chicago Anarchists who were
ON trial for the uaymarket riot an;! bomb
throwing We're convicted. Spies, Schwab,
Eic.,en Parsons, Fischer., Engel and Lingg
were sentenced to death. Ncebe got fifteen
years iii prison.
@3. Broadway surface road tied up. The
tie up was OF short duration.
SEPTEMBER.
4. ThrCo hundred aId thirty plumbers
locked out in New York city because of a
difference between them and the bosses over
the apprenticeship rule.
6. Monster parade and demonstration Of
trades unionists and their sympathizers in
New York city.
II. One thousand sailors struck at San
Francisco owing to differences with the ship
ping agents.
IL. All the laborers and .lechanics of
Charleston, S. c., struck for all increase Of
wages, which was denied. The men there
upon resumed work.
%. -Four hundred and fifty brownStone
rubbers struck in New York city against the
employment of non-union man.
OCTOBER.
4. Armour's beef packers at Chicago were
ordered 20 quit work
T. Eight thousand pork packers of Chicago
struck for eight hours.
Z. The general assembly of the knights Of
Labor organized at Richmond and admitted
the Home club.
16. The morocco workers of Wilmington,
who have been out on strike for seven months,
have returned to work.
IL. The great strike of the Chicago packing
house workmen IS at an end, the men having
agreed to return to work on the ten hour plan.
20. National assembly of the Knights of
Labor, at Richmond, Va, was adjourned sine
die. Grand Master Workman Powderlv's
salary was increased to 5000 from 81 800
Other salaries raised accordingly
%. The convention of the National Brother
hood of Engineers, at New York, unani-
mously elected p. NJ. Arthur, Of Cleveland,
grand chief engineer.
81. The condemned Chicago Anarchists
have beeen granted a SupersedeaS. This Oper-
ates as stay Of execution.
NOVEMBER. -.-s
!. The striking miners at Shamokin, Pa,
decide to resume work. The painters and
paper hangers of Haverhill, Mass, struck for
nine hours.
T. The Paterson molders' strike was ended
by tho bosses granting the increase de-
manded.
6. The Augusta, Ga, cotton mill strike is
at an end. The mill owners yield.
6. Twenty thousand Chicago pork packers
again quit work.
Ic;v ~
the eastern portions Of the United States,
struck against a proposed reduction of 5 per
cent in their wages
2S The strike of the tanners and curriers'
of Salem and Peabody, Mass, has failed.
DECEMBER.
T. Strike in Breeds shoe shops at Lynn,
Mass, 700 persons went out.
II. The conference of trades unions at Col
umbus, o., adopt the name of "The American
Confederation of Labor"
10. The Brooklyn knights of Labor object
to the payment OF contribution of 81 each
toward purchasing hall in New York.
81. The employees Of the Eureka Iron COM
pany, at Oxmoor, Ala, quit work ON account
of q compulsory school tax.
g. Several Of the Brooklyn surface roads
tied up. Settled same day, after some blood
shed.
25 One thousand two hundred dissatisfied
employees at the coal wharves of the Reading
road in Philadelphia, struck. Unless the de-
mands of the men are granted, 25, 900 Knights
of Labor will go out shortly.
27.-Masked cable car strikers in San Fran
cisco attack car and drive the passengers
from it
27.-Itis reported that so, 600 mnchinists will
leave the Knights of Labor unless granted a
National Assembly charter.
%. Dynamite found in the cable road tun
mel in San Francisco
%. District assemblies Knights of Labor Of
ten states will soon send request to Grand
Master Workman Powderly to call q special
session of the national assembly. This be-
cause of Powderly's ordering Chicago packers
strike ''off," his ordering money subscribed to
the anarchist" fund returned, and to rescind
action of the Richmond convention in raising
officers salaries.
%. Strike on Reading railroad ended.
%. Knights of Labor pickets at Amster-
dam released from confinement. This is a
significant movement in the contest between
the knitting mill owners and operatives, which
was feature of the year.